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That's nice information for newer players, but you really should stress more about the dangers of being in space in general, even in high sec. Suicide ganks happen, margin trading scams happen, deals that are "too good to be true" happen- all of which are not immediately apparent to new players and can seriously jeopardize their continued experience in the game.

I'm not suggesting to hand them every answer about everything that could happen, just to stress that sometimes they could get blown up or ganked or whatever and it's part of the learning experience in Eve.

Help the newbs! Hmm maybe a good time to use my 60d gtc from the collectors edition?

Also, fixing/updating the Wiki would be one of the most meaningful things you can do in terms of new players. The EveOnline Wiki is currently...lacking... to put it nicely. Have you seen EveUni's wiki? The web resources are just as important as the in game resources for new players (and all players in general).

Yep...it's good marketing showing new players that they are going to get ganked, scammed and lured to pvp fights without their knowledge..lol

It's better to have them introduce the concept up front and let players know that things like this happen in the game and that's what helps drive the economy.

If a player is brand new and farms up his first cruiser/bc/battleship and is suicide ganked without understanding what happened, they'll probably stop playing.

I've met rookies who've been playing for five-plus years, and month-old players who've taught me a thing or two.

you guys are really sitting there inside a bubble.

you really think a new player has time to read up on all of that, yet you fail to see the most common reason new players will not stick around.. griefing, bullying, and the bad-side of eve online. .until you finally wake up about this fact.. you will never retain new players.. you're trying to use pride saying well we can keep 1 out of 10 that's a victory.. no its not.. its sad and pathetic.

work on the bad side of eve and you'll see major new player growth.. until then.. everyone considers eve online close to online gambling.. too much risk and little reward and a major time sink.. all the while they can just buy a game and automatically get boosted to 90 just on the initial purchase.

think bigger ccp.. think big.

What we need is an expanded and far better 'New Player Experience' (NPE) . It doesn't necessarily have to explain every element of the game but it does need to be far better than it currently is. Maybe a link to a special website or something at the start when a person initially starts up a capsuleer with all the main information on it that they can't live without - the basic stuff. It doenst need to be about drug production or T3 production but the basics such as all the stuff to do with flying a ship.

Some of these replies are interesting, but your all far from the mark, CCP issuing a new player road map, Suggest you take that same map and compare it with the instruction set on any Console FPS which is the direction CCP are taking EVE.

When it happens they will of course make some blathering excuse that numbers are falling and they need to protect there Dollar income stream but if it sounds like Console, smells like console then it probably is console FPS your gonna be left with.

Not much else you can expect from a bunch of Devs brought up twitching there thumbs really is it.

Hello...

I've been running various new pilot friendly corps over the years when I've had the free time to do it. One of the things that I've noticed has been that new players often complain about how difficult it is to get into the eve universe so that they feel useful to the corp in general... As a new capsuleer they are extremely limited in their first day of EVE. Extremely limited... for example it takes an hour or so before they can train skills to be effective as a tackle and other careers are even more restricted by the fact that when most people start they literally have no idea where to start with regards to earning isk as such many want to try various things to decide what they would like to get into....

The only problem is this can be a week up to a month long process.... So what can be done about this? People want to be apart of EVE but its such a pain in the A$$ to get going that many give up within in the first week.... I know a lot of people view this as weeding out the weak... However I think its a lack of immersion that allows this to happen....

What I would suggest would be a new approach to the new player experience. When a capsuleer first creates their character they should be put through the basics as found in the tutorial such as flying around warping etc. However what I would suggest is separating this experience from the rest of the universe. It should be portrayed as a simulation of events to come... for example pilots should be given the chance to use a mining barge, assault ship and SOE exploration frigate BEFORE their release into the world with a basic ship...

introducing new players to ships they won't get to use for a month or more will help give them a drive as well as an objective to shoot for when it comes to training for something.... So for example instead of having the rookie systems as the base of the tutorial it should be an instanced client side simulation of what various roles have to offer that takes place after character creation but before they arrive in the starter system. Doing it in this way would give new players something tangible to base their goals on... Another thing that is missing from the new player experience is the career selection....

When I first started eve there were various career paths that you could choose from that would help by giving you a base set of skills... This was later removed so that people creating alts could do so more quickly without having arbitrary skills they'll never use. However it should have been revamped... not removed... I say this because by removing it, it gives a new player even less of an idea of what their shooting for once they join the rest of the universe....

What I would suggest is that after following the simulation of each career path given in the tutorials as mentioned above, the pilots should be allowed to choose a frigate associated with their desired career path. It should be given to them when they do spawn in the universe. As a result of their career choice their starting skills should allow them to use the ship they choose at mastery level 3. Doing this would give new players direction they can then pursue rather than wondering what to do after the tutorials as many do now. It would really help them get off the ground and into the world the moment they undock rather than fiddling around with their fingers up their a$$es for a week or more trying to figure out what their supposed to do.

With regards to players simply creating alts there could be a base amount of skill points allocated, say around 1 million or so, to allow them to customize their toon within a basic ship's mastery level of 2-3..... Basically your given the choice to pick a career and before you have to commit your given the option to modify it as you you please within a limited but varied context of basic skills. During this experience you could even set it up in such a way that players are introduced to what attribute points do as well explain how skill points are allocated. If I'd have to pick something that's inspired this, think of the intro of Fallout New Vegas when you go to the machine and allocate your points to your desired traits and are then asked a series of questions about your temperament to give you an idea of what you'll be doing during your stay.

Doing the above would give a new player context in relation to what their planning to do once they join the rest of us while still allowing for emergent experiences once they do. Anyway this is just my view based on running new pilot corps over the last 4-5 years.....

Take care o7